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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Global Modernism
Book SynopsisThis anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize those canons, the volume explores what a genuinely global history of architectural modernism might begin to look like. Its chapters explore the historiography and weaknesses of modernism's normative interpretations and propose alternatives to them. The collection offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are engaged. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference forTrade Review"Taking seriously the challenge to think critically and deeply about what ‘global modernism’ and a reconsideration of postcoloniality might entail, this landmark volume brings together the foremost experts in the field to open up new directions for the study of ‘modern’ architecture and the built environment. Each essay conjures exciting potential avenues through the migrant, out-of-sync, and fragmented histories and futures of modern architecture, steadfastly refusing the call for a satisfying whole to instead embrace the much more interesting (and indeed accurate) dispersals of the global modern."Rebecca M. Brown, Professor and Chair of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, USA"Long after ‘metanarratives’ have been considered as obsolete by Jean-François Lyotard, collective endeavors such as Vikramaditya Prakash’s, Maristella Casciato’s, and Daniel Coslett’s assemblage of essays take stock of the stunning metamorphosis of the historical interpretation of twentieth-century architecture. The essays contained in their dense, diverse tome not only widen our field of vision, including overlooked projects and buildings, but they also question without mercy the critical production which has been since the 1920s the doppelgänger of modernist practice. Without any doubt, Rethinking Global Modernism will inspire a new generation of investigations which will further reshape the worldwide history of architecture and urban form."Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts/New York University, USA"With its thematic approach, Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial is a well-organized, astute and thought-provoking analysis of the history of modern architecture. We needed this compendium with some of the best scholars of the field of global history."Caroline Maniaque, Professor of Architectural History and Cultures, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Normandie, France"A serendipitously timed and kaleidoscopic examination of modernism globally—its discontents, adaptations, evolutions, contestations, transformative effects and often impending erasure. The collective resonance of these essays challenge us to expand and nuance more critically the histories of modernism in the planetary context."Rahul Mehrotra, RMA Architects and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA"If the pandemic has been a moment of recalibrating methods and priorities towards a better understanding of architecture and its role in the interactive processes of modernization that shape the global environment, this book promises to be an extraordinarily productive response to that challenge. Edited by some of the most experienced scholars of the history of modern architecture in Asia and Latin America, it offers a wide array of topical issues in architectural theory and criticism regarding what used to be called the ‘Third World,’ thereby systematically updating the methods and the vocabulary in ways that will be indispensable for scholars working in the field."Stanislaus von Moos, Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Zurich, Switzerland"Instead of reading global modernism as subordination or resistance to modernist forms projected outward from western metropoles, this ambitious collection reconstructs as well as deconstructs modern architecture’s foundations, its historiographical processes. Here modernism’s past and future are decolonized and globalized, multidirectional and multinucleated in their narratives, theories, agencies, and materialities."Mary N. Woods, Professor Emerita of the History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Global Modernism and the Postcolonial (Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett); PART I: Critiques of Normative Modernist Narratives; 2. "Weak" Modernism: Managing the Threat of Brazil’s Modern Architecture at MoMA (Patricio del Real); 3. Enchanted Transfers: MoMA’s Japanese Exhibition House and the Secular Occlusion of Modernism (María González Pendás); 4. Competing Modernities: Socialist Architecture’s Challenge to the Global (Juliana Maxim); 5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Prize, and the Creation of the Civilization Industrial Complex (Mark Jarzombek); PART II: New Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking Global Modernism 6. An Architecture Culture of "Contact Zones": Prospects for an Alternative Historiography of Modernism (Tom Avermaete and Cathelijne Nuijsink); 7. Intra-action: Barad’s "Agential Realism" and Modernism (Hannah Feniak); 8. Layered Networks: Beyond the Local and the Global in Postcolonial Modernism (Alona Nitzan-Shiftan); PART III: Modernism and (Trans)Nationalism 9. Uneven Modernities: Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus (Martin Beattie); 10. Unbuilt Iran: Modernism’s Counterproposal in Alvar Aalto’s Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz (Shima Mohajeri and Parsa Khalili); 11. Representing Landscape, Mediating Wetness: Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) (Labib Hossain); PART IV: Rethinking Agency in Modernism 12. Domestic Funk: Favelados of the Global North (Greg Castillo); 13. CINVA to Siyabuswa: The Unruly Path of Global Self-help Housing (Hannah le Roux); 14. Subaltern-Diasporic Histories of Modernism: Working on Australia’s "Snowy Scheme" (Anoma Pieris); PART V: Infrastructures and Materials Cultures of Global Modernism); 15. The Politics of Concrete: Material Culture, Global Modernism, and the Project of Decolonization in India (Martino Stierli); 16. Jane Drew in Lagos: Carbonization and Colonization at BP House, 1960 (Daniel A. Barber); 17. Provincializing ENI’s Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam (Giulia Scotto); 18. The Politics of Circulation: Cinema Architecture in Colonial Morocco (Craig Buckley); Afterword; 19. Massive Urbanization and the Circulation of Eventualities (AbdouMaliq Simone); Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Subaltern Womens Narratives
Book SynopsisSubaltern Women''s Narratives brings together intersectional feminist scholarship from the Humanities and Social Sciences and explores subaltern women's narratives of resistance and subversion. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection focuses on fictional texts, archival records, and ethnographic research to explore the lived experiences of subaltern women in different marginalised communities across a wide geographical landscape, as they negotiate their way through modes of labour and activism. Thematically grouped, the focus of this book is two-fold: to look at the lived experiences of subaltern women as they negotiate their lives in a world of political flux and conflicts; and to examine subaltern women's dissenting practices as recorded in texts and archives. This collection will push the boundaries of scholarship on decolonial and postcolonial feminism and subaltern studies, reading women's subversive practices especially in the themes of epistemology and embTable of Contents1. Introduction: Subaltern Women’s ResistancePART I: EPISTEMOLOGICAL DISSENT2. Narratives of Hidden Curriculum in Fiji3. "Insulting the Modesty of a Woman?!": Examining the Language of Protest in Malawi4. Marginalised Women in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Novels as Fictional Intervention5. Unhomed Knowledge: The Diasporic Family as Site of Subaltern Pedagogy6. Searching in the Shadows: Aboriginal Women in Early Colonial New South Wales7. Feminist voice(s) in South African Curriculum-Making and DisseminationPART II: EMBODYING RESISTANCE8. Touching the ‘Untouchable’: Depiction of Body and Sexuality in Select Dalit Women’s Autobiographies9. Rethinking Subalternity through Posthuman and Feminist Entanglements: Violence, Displacement, Exile and the Woman Subject in Contemporary Turkish Literature10. Conjuring up a Shadow: A Case of Castration in a Colonial Archiv11. Voicing Sexual and Social Resistance in Seventeenth-Century ManilaPART III: PRACTICING SUBVERSION12. Survival and Resilience: Rohingya Refugee Women’s Narratives of Life, Loss, and Hope13. Translating into Other Identities: Bama and Her Writing14. Thriving, Surviving and Hanging on: Domestic Workers in Harare Suburbs15. Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Dissenting Female Body: The Rukhmabai Case16. Subaltern’s Resistance against Rape and Sexual Assault: An Aporia?
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Taylor & Francis Sport Physical Activity and AntiColonial
Book SynopsisThis book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches â challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces.It presents examples of autoethnographic work that interrogate physical cultural practices as both produced by, and generative of, settler-colonial logics and structures, including research into outdoor recreation, youth sport experiences, and sport spectatorship. It situates this work in the context of key paradigmatic issues in social scientific research, including ontology, epistemology, axiology, ethics, and praxis, and looks ahead at the shape that social relations might take beyond settler colonialism.Drawing on cutting-edge research and presenting innovative theoretical perspectives, this book is fascinating reading for anybod
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Taylor & Francis Nehru
Book SynopsisThis engaging new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician he actually was. Benjamin Zachariah places Nehru in the context of the issues of his time, including the central theme of nationalism, the impact of Cold War pressures on India and the transition from colonial control to a precarious independence.How did Jawaharlal Nehru come to lead the Indian nationalist movement, and how did he sustain his leadership as the first Prime Minister of independent India? Nehru''s vision of India, its roots in Indian politics and society, as well as its viability have been central to historical and present-day views of India.Connecting the domestic and international aspects of his political life and ideology, this study provides a fascinating insight into Nehru, his times and his legacy. Trade Review'A fresh presentation.' - The Hindu'Nehru is fun to read: lively, provocative … Zachariah cares deeply about his subject and has many good ideas.' - Institute of Historical ResearchTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, CHRONOLOGY, PREFACE, Introduction, 1 The making of a colonial intellectual, 2 The young Gandhian, 3 ‘Ineffectual angel’, 1927–39, 4 The end of the Raj, Interlude – Envisioning the new India, 5 Consolidating the state, c. 1947–55, 6 High Nehruvianism and its decline, c. 1955–63, Conclusion: death, succession, legacy, NOTES, FURTHER READING, INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Disease Health Care and Government in Late
Book SynopsisThis book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, exploring the social, economic and political impact of successive outbreaks of cholera and the politics of public health policy. It makes a significant contribution to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime.Trade Review"[A] very important and thoroughly researched book with well-contextualised arguments on cholera and medical professionals in Russia."- Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas; Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2011Table of Contents1. Cholera in Russia 2. Saratov on the Eve of the Epidemic 3. Cholera in Saratov, 1892 4. Sanitised Politics and the Politics of Medicine 5. The Revival of Cholera: 1904-1914 Conclusion: Saratov, Cholera, and the Empire
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University of California Press The Play of Time Kodi Perspectives on Calendars History and Exchange
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Cambridge University Press Fabrication of Empire
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Manchester University Press Scotland the Caribbean and the Atlantic World
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century.Trade ReviewThere is no comparable study and this book would find a welcome place on the reading lists of graduate students and historians of the Atlantic world.' -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsMapsIntroduction1. Scotland in the eighteenth century2. The eighteenth-century West Indies3. Scots on the plantations4. Mercantile connections5. Scots doctors in the West Indies6. Scots in West Indian politics7. Scots, the Caribbean and British politics8. Repatriation from the West IndiesConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Law History Colonialism The Reach of Empire
Book SynopsisExplores issues including the judicial construction of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states, the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire, constructions of madness among colonised people, reforming property rights of married women.Table of ContentsContributorsIntroductionPart One: Colonialism’s legality1. Terminal legality: Imperialism and the (de) composition of law - Peter Fitzpatrick2. Colonization and the legal cartography of authority: English intrusions on the American mainland in the seventeenth century - Christopher Tomlins3. Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New south Wales and Upper Canada 1788-1837 - John McLarenPart TwoI: Imperialism and citizenship4. Race definition run amuck: ‘Slaying the dragon of Eskimo status’ before the supreme court of Canada, 1939 - Constance Backhouse5. The paradox of ‘Ultra Democratic’ governments: Indigenous peoples’ civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia - Patricia Grimshaw, Robert Reynolds and Shurlee Swain6. ‘When There’s No Safety in Numbers’: Fear and the franchise in the Union of South Africa, the case of Natal - Julie Evans and David Philips7. Making ‘Mad’ populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum - Catharine ColebornePart ThreeI: Justice, custom and the common law8. Towards a “taxonomy” for the common law: Legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law - Mark Walters9. The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial NSW - Nancy Wright10. Assuming judicial control: George Brown’s narrative defence of the ‘New Britain Raid’ - Helen GardnerPartFour: Land, sovereignty and imperial frontiers11. The early fate of Maori land rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Ann Parsonson12. ‘Because it does not make any sense’: Sovereignty’s power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen, 1997 - John Borrows13. Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia - Hilary Golder & Diane Kirkby14. The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: The case of the New Zealand ‘Native Land Purchase Ordinance’ of 1846 - John WeaverPart Five: Colonialism's legacy15. International law – Recolonising the Third World?: Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna Basin - Radha D’Souza16. Historians and native title: The question of evidence - Christine Choo17. Race, gender, and history in three societies: Canada, New Zealand and Australia - Constance Backhouse, Ann Curthoys, and Ann ParsonsonIndex
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Manchester University Press Labour and the Politics of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a well-written and widely researched comparative and transnational history of two of the most significant Labour/Labor parties in the Anglophone world, Britain's Labour Party and Australia's Labor Party|This is a well-written and widely researched comparative and transnational history of two of the most significant Labour/Labor parties in the Anglophone world, Britain's Labour Party and Australia's Labor Party (referred to by Neville Kirk as the BLP and the ALP). Kirk highlights the similar trajectories of the two parties over the course of the twentieth century (and into the twenty-first century), as well as the continuities and breaks within the histories of each party, with the fortunes and misfortunes of both often overlapping in some way. What Kirk clearly demonstrates is that at different points in their intertwining histories, the parties looked to each other for inspiration, particularly in the years leading up to the First World War and the early interwar period, and then again in the 1980s and 1990s. It is remarkable that this was not simply the case of the Australian party on the periphery of the British Empire looking toward the British party in the colonial metropole, but often the BLP looking to the ALP for guidance. Kirk shows that the electoral victories of the ALP at the state level, then at the federal level in the lead up to 1914, provided great inspiration for Labour in Britain, demonstrating that a workers' party could wrestle parliamentary control away from traditional political parties. At the other end of the century, the "modernization" of the ALP under two prime ministers, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, gave "modernizers" (not just those involved in the New Labour/Blairite project) in Britain a blueprint for how to revitalize the party and shift away from the traditional view of "tax and spend" Labour. As a comparative (and quite all-encompassing) history of the two parties, this book would serve anyone interested in the story of labor politics in both countries very well. However, the book's title also mentions "politics of empire," and the introduction explicitly refers to the author's interest in the impact that colonialism/imperialism had on both parties. Indeed, Kirk states that "my study ... concludes that, on balance, nation, empire and race exerted far more, albeit variable, influence upon Labour and anti-Labour politics in the two countries in question than so far suggested in the relevant literature" (p. 5). In the introduction, the author does a good job in outlining how ideas of nationhood, "race," and empire affected labor politics in Britain and Australia, and how the two parties operated within the British Empire/Commonwealth. He mentions the reciprocal relationship between the BLP and the ALP, which functioned on a more equal level than the traditional concept of the "core/periphery" framework of the British Empire might suggest. He also notes that labor politics, particularly in Australia, were tied to ideas of "race" and "whiteness" during the first half of the twentieth century and that both parties attempted to fuse workers' rights with a sense of national identity. The arguments set forth in this introductory section as well as Kirk's depth of research and familiarity with the literature form a tantalizing monograph. The second section, "The Growth of Independent Labour," continues with some of the arguments set out in the introduction. In particular, Kirk outlines the notion that Australian nationalism, as expounded by the early labor movement, was not celebratory of the British Empire, emphasizing an Australian path to socialism/social democracy away from Britain while maintaining the importance of the "white" British "race." He also describes the ways in which both parties sought to "protect" workers' rights by campaigning against the use of colonial labor in Britain and Australia, which points to a difference between labor relations in settler colonies and other parts of the empire. However, Kirk does not expand on these arguments and he sacrifices some of the details of these arguments for other aspects of the narrative. As the book looks at the interwar period and the Cold War era, arguments about nation, "race," and empire are further subsumed by the narrative of the two parties and rarely focus on these ideas for more than a few paragraphs at a time. The third and fourth sections, "The Politics of Loyalism" and "Mixed Fortunes," are indicative of this approach. Kirk spends a large part of these two sections discussing the accusation by the Right that both the BLP and the ALP had "betrayed" the nation, and the British Empire/Commonwealth more broadly, by their links, whether they actually existed or not, to the international communist movement. This discussion tends to overshadow some of the key events, concepts, and movements that were occurring within the British Empire/Commonwealth at this time, with little indication given to how both parties reacted to these developments. For example, decolonization and migration within the commonwealth--two phenomena that irreversibly changed the operation of the British Commonwealth--increased greatly in the late 1940s while Labour sat in power in London and Canberra, with Clement Atlee's government overseeing one of the most significant events in the history of British decolonization, the independence of India/Pakistan. However, Kirk does not discuss how Labour managed this moment or in general, Labour's handling of the decolonization process, other than acknowledging that Labour favored a multiracial and "democratic" commonwealth. The same goes for how both the ALP and BLP handled migration from the commonwealth, with Kirk mentioning it briefly and describing how the ALP's Arthur Calwell favored "white" commonwealth migrants, but not much more. Other issues of "race," nation, and empire in the commonwealth, such as Irish independence, the Suez Crisis, the 1951 ANZUS Treaty, the treatment of Aboriginal Australians by the ALP before the Gough Whitlam era, and Britain's attempts to join the European Economic Community, receive minimal analysis in this book. The last section, focused on Labour since the 1970s, "Traditionalism, Modernisation and Revisionism," includes some discussion of how both parties have changed their thinking on "race" and nation in an increasingly globalized and postcolonial world, such as the establishment of multicultural communities in Britain and Australia, and popular views of the history of colonialism in both countries. These are, once again, dealt with too quickly. For readers interested in both labor and colonial/postcolonial history, this book focuses too heavily on the narrative of the comparative history of the ALP and the BLP rather than a comparative history of how these parties dealt with questions of "race," nation, and imperialism that the empire brought up over the last century. Anyone interested in labor history and thinking of delving into the world of colonialism and postcolonialism would benefit from reading this book as an introduction to the topic, but for more seasoned readers in these areas, this book lacks depth. As stated at the beginning of this review, Labour and the Politics of Empire is a very good book about the history of Labour/Labor in Britain and Australia, but not as good as a history of the politics of empire. -- .Table of ContentsPart I: Setting the scene 1. Subject matter, debates and issues 2. Labour and elections Part II: The growth of independent Labour 3. Chronology, constituencies, impact 4. Explanations and characteristics Part III: The politics of loyalism 5. Anti-Socialism and the tarring of Labour 6. Labour responses and political outcomes Part IV: Mixed fortunes: From the 1940s World War to the 1970s class war 7. Labour successes: the 1940s 8. Out in the cold 9. Transnational ties, electoral successes and bitter defeats Part V: Traditionalism, modernisation and revisionism 10. Successes and failures 11. From Hawke and Keating to the rise of New Labour, 1983-1997 12. From Howard to Gillard, from Blair to Brown, 1997-2010 Conclusion Index
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Pluto Press The Brutish Museums
Book SynopsisA call for western museums to wash their hands of colonial bloodTrade Review'A real game-changer' -- The Economist'If you care about museums and the world, read this book' -- New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Hicks’s urgent, lucid, and brilliantly enraged book feels like a long-awaited treatise on justice' -- Coco Fusco, New York Review of Books'Unsparing ... especially timely ... his book invites readers to help break the impasse by joining the movement for restitution.' -- CNN'The book is a vital call to action: part historical investigation, part manifesto, demanding the reader do away with the existing “brutish museums” of the title and find a new way for them to exist' -- Charlotte Lydia Riley, Guardian'A startling act of conscience. An important book which could overturn what people have felt about British history, empire, civilisation, Africa, and African art. It is with books like this that cultures are saved, by beginning truthfully to face the suppressed and brutal past. It has fired a powerful shot into the debate about cultural restitution. You will never see many European museums in the same way again. Books like this give one hope that a new future is possible.' -- Ben Okri, poet and writer'An epiphanic book for many generations to come' -- Victor Ehikhamenor, visual artist and writer'Unflinching, elegantly written and passionately argued, this is a call to action' -- Bénédicte Savoy, Professor of Art History at Technische University'In his passionate, personal, and, yes, political account, Dan Hicks transforms our understanding of the looting of Benin. This book shows why being against violence now more than ever means repatriating stolen royal and sacred objects and restoring stolen memories' -- Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University'Destined to become an essential text' -- Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times'Dan, your words brought tears to my eyes. I salute you' -- MC Hammer'A masterful condemnation and inspiring call to action' -- Los Angeles Review of Books'Timely' -- Nature'The Brutish Museums shows that colonial violence is unfinished, and as it persists in the present, it cannot be relativized.' -- Ana Lucia Araujo, Public Books'The Brutish Museums leaves no stone unturned' -- Financial Times'The Brutish Museums argues, persuasively, that the corporate-militaristic pillage behind Europe’s encyclopedic collections is not a simple matter of possession, but a systematic extension of warfare across time' -- The Baffler'A bombshell book' -- Los Angeles Times‘After this book, there can be no more false justifications for holding Benin Bronzes in museums outside of Africa’ -- Africa is a Country‘Presents a powerful case for restitution of looted objects, and hostile responses to it highlight enduring attachments to imperialism' -- ‘Counterfire’Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Gun That Shoots Twice 2. A Theory of Taking 3. Necrography 4. Projection 5. World War Zero 6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism 7. War on Terror 8. The Benin-Niger-Soudan Expedition 9. The Sacking of Benin City 10. Democide 11. Iconoclasm 12. Looting 13. Necrography 14. 'The Museum of Weapons, etc 15. Chronopolitics 16. A Declaration of War 17. A Negative Moment 18. Ten Thousand Unfinished Events Afterword: A Decade of Returns Appendix One: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques Looted in 1897 Appendix Two: Sources of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (the 'first collection' Appendix Three: Sources of Benin Objects in the former Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham ('the second collection') Appendix Four: Current Location of Benin Objects previously in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection') Appendix Five: A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897. References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Colonial Food Shire Library USA
Book SynopsisOf the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony''s most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence of the earliest days and the crucial help provided by Native Americans, to the first Thanksgiving celebrations and the increasingly sophisticated fare served in inns and taverns, this book provides a window onto daily life in Colonial America. It shows how European methods and cuisine were adapted to include native agriculture such as maize, potatoes, beans, peanuts and tomatoes, and features a section of authentic menus and recipes, including apple tansey and crab soup, which can be used to prepare your own colonial meals.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Arriving in the New World / Farming in the Early Colonies / Seventeenth-Century Food / Farming in the Eighteenth Century / Eighteenth-Century Food / Recreating Colonial Food Today / Places to Visit / Further Reading / Bibliography / Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) State Failure in SubSaharan Africa The Crisis of
Book SynopsisCatherine Scott is a teaching fellow in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London. She is Managing Editor of the journal Conflict, Security & Development and holds a PhD in International Politics and Security from King's College London.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Genealogies of State Failure 2. The Failings of the Failed State ‘Thesis’ 3. The State and its Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa 4. Burundi: The Freezing of a Failed Kingdom 5. Uganda: A Foundational Failure and Post-Colonial Revival 6. Concluding Reflections
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Bloomsbury Academic Dalit Theology Boundary Crossings and Liberation
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Untold Story of the Golan Heights
Book SynopsisMichael Mason is Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where he is also Associate Professor in Environmental Geography. He publishes on global environmental governance, politics and security. He is author of The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders (2005) and Environmental Democracy (1999), co-author of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance (2014) and co-editor of Renewable Energy in the Middle East (2009).Muna Dajani is Research Officer at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. For over 9 years, she has worked in the fields of environment and development in Palestine, working with grassroots initiatives, NGOs, universities and governmental bodies. She received her PhD from the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE.Munir Fakher Eldin is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and CultTrade ReviewThe Untold Story of the Golan Heights is one of very few books about this region. But what distinguishes this volume is the fact that it is a collaborative endeavor authored by Jawlanis and their allies, thereby giving readers a chance to learn from the truest of experts. -- Lisa Hajjar, University of California – Santa Barbara, USATable of Contents1 Introduction: Representing the occupied Jawlan/Golan, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Michael Mason, LSE, UK I: EVERYDAY COLONIZATION Chapter 2: The Politics of Lifeworld Colonisation in the occupied Golan: Michael Mason, LSE, UK Reflection 1: The 1982 General Strike, Bassel Rizqallah, Birzeit University student, Palestine II: THE POLITICS OF THE GOVERNED Chapter 3: Mapping the Politics of the Governed among the Jawlanis: A Semiotic Approach, Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine Reflection 2: The occupied Syrian Golan and Birzeit University: A Story of Solidarity, Diaaeddin Horoub, journalist and researcher, Palestine Reflection 3: The occupied Syrian Golan Heights after 2011: The Constant and Variable, Aram Abu Saleh, Syrian writer and activist, occupied Syrian Jawlan III: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI ART Chapter 4: Sculptures in Jawlani Public Places: Reflections on the Work of Identity, Wael Tarabieh, Jawlani artist, and Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine Reflection 4: The Jawlani Art and Cultural Scene, Abdel Qader Thweib, Birzeit University student, Palestine Reflection 5: The Role of Literature and Folk Music in Resisting Israelization of the Jawlan, Nadine Musallam, journalist IV: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI YOUTH AND EDUCATION Chapter 5: Israeli Education Policies as a Tool for the Ethnic Manipulation of the Arab Druze, Amal Aun, independent researcher Reflection 6: How to Counter-map the Jawlani Lands: Visualizing Memory, Place and Identity, Jumanah Abbas, independent researcher Reflection 7: The Concept of ‘Jawlani Youth’: Between Colonial Policies and Society, Ali Aweidat, Syrian researcher and activist, occupied Syrian Jawlan V: A JAWLANI POLITICAL ECOLOGY Chapter 6: Being in Place: On the Jawlan Formation and Agroecological History of Highlands, Omar Tesdell, Birzeit University, Palestine, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; and Alaa Iktash, Palestinian researcher, Al Quds (Jerusalem) Reflection 8: From Jabal al-Shaykh to Mount Hermon Ski Resort, Alaa Iktash, Palestinian researcher, Al Quds (Jerusalem) 7 Conclusion: The Jawlan as Counter-Geography, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Michael Mason, LSE, UK
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Serendipitous Adventures with Britannia
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe main pleasure of a book like this is akin to that of listening to a series of assured after-dinner speakers, highly knowledgeable about their chosen subject and able to entertain as well as inform. * Alan Ross, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction Wm. Roger Louis, The University of Texas at Austin 1. How Churchill’s Mind Worked, Paul Addison, Oxford University 2. Éamon de Valera, Kevin Kenny, New York University 3. Calouste Gulbenkian: Mr. Five Percent, Richard Davenport-Hines, Oxford University 4. Lord Beaverbrook, Jane Ridley, University of Buckingham 5. Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill, Jeffrey Meyers, Biographer and literary, art and film critic 6. Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim, Robert King, University of Texas 7. Louis George Martin: Champion Weightlifter, John Fair, University of Texas 8. Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde, Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna and Oxford University 9. William Morris: Artist, Businessman, and Radical, Peter Stansky, Stanford University 10. Ida John: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Rosemary Hill, Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University 11. Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism, David Leal, University of Texas 12. P. G. Wodehouse, Joseph Epstein, Author of more than 25 books including The Ideal of Culture (2018) 13. Samuel Beckett and Surrealism, Alan Friedman, University of Texas 14. Harry Potter and Bloomsbury, Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publishing 15. A Battle for the Soul of Classics at Oxford, Paul Woodruff, University of Texas 16. Obedience by the Book, Al Martinich, University of Texas 17. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford University 18. The Problem with Monuments: A View from All Souls, Edward Mortimer, Oxford University 19. The Social History of the Raj, Max Hastings, Journalist and author of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (2018) 20. Warnings from Versailles, 1919, Margaret Macmillan, Oxford University 21. The British Defense of Cyprus, 1941, George Kelling, Civilian Historian with the U.S Air Force 22. How the British Left Palestine, Bernard Wasserstein, Author of several books including The British in Palestine (1978) 23. America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957, Derek Leebaert, Author and a founder of the National Museum of the U.S. Army 24. Brexit: An Historical Romance, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Journalist and Historian 25. Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights, Philip Waller, Oxford University
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Masculinity after Trujillo The Politics of
Book SynopsisAny observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. In this extraordinary work, Maja Horn argues that this common Dominican attitude became ingrained during the dictatorship (1930-61) of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as well as through the US military occupation that preceded it.Trade Review“Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature.”—Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo“The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship but also to Caribbean and other Latin American students of the intersection of history, political power, and gendered practices and discourses.”—Emilio Bejel, author of Gay Cuban Nation""A novel and thoughtful analysis of the sexual gender relations and the construction of masculinity in contemporary Dominican culture. The Americas“A well-researched and rigorously historicized contribution to the field of Dominican cultural studies, moving elegantly between cultural and literary analyses.”—Modern Language Review
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Taylor & Francis Inc The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset
Book SynopsisThe British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living through the experience of colonialism into the bigger picture of empire.The experience of the British Empire was not limited to what happened behind closed doors or on the floor of Parliament. It affected men, women and children across the globe, making a difference to what they ate and what kind of work they did, what languages and lessons they learned in school, and how they were able to live their lives. This new edition expands its coverage and discusses the relationship between Brexit and empire as well as the recent controversies connected to empire that have engulfed Britain: the Windrush scandal, the fight over the Chagos Islands and the Mau Mau lawsuits, bringing it up to date and engaging with key debates thaTable of Contents1. Uniting the kingdom 2. Slaves, merchants and trade 3. Settling the ‘New World’ 4. After America 5. Britain in India 6. Global growth 7. Ruling an empire 8. Being ruled 9. Gender and sexuality 10. Contesting empire 11. Decolonisation Chronology of British Empire
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Duke University Press From the Tricontinental to the Global South Race
Book SynopsisAnne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental and calls for a revival of the Tricontinental's politics as a means to strengthen racial justice and anti-neoliberal struggles in the twenty-first-century.Trade Review"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is particularly effective in its close reading of cultural texts and thus makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and cultural criticism. In centering Latin American and Black Radical intellectual and artistic traditions in its discussion of left transnational politics, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism, it effectively shifts the focus from Western Marxist traditions to racialized, oppressed, and dispossessed scholar-activists. Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Power studies, and subfields of history, sociology, and political science that focus on power relations, political organizing, and social movements will benefit from this framing." -- Charisse Burden-Stelly * Black Perspectives *"Mahler convincingly argues that movements many readers may be familiar with, such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and Black Lives Matter, were inheritors of or collaborators in this Tricontinental aesthetic. Reproductions of striking film stills and bold graphic design make the book as visually captivating as it is wonderfully written—modeling the Tricontinental’s commitment to a well-designed revolution." -- Amanda Reid * Public Books *"[A] rich, interdisciplinary history of the Tricontinental. . . . Historians of the United States will find interesting the many links between conceptions of the Global South and of the American South." -- Nico Slate * Journal of American History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is a compelling read and should appeal to a broad range of scholars who are interested in racial transnational social movements, racial capitalism, and the politics of culture in the Americas." -- Juan De Lara * Aztlán *"A conceptually rich examination of the political and aesthetic vocabularies produced by and around the Tricontinental, combining rigorous historical investigation with close formal analysis of works of literature, film, and visual culture. . . . Not only does From the Tricontinental to the Global South offer a long history of resistant politics in which Latin American, Afro-descendant, and African American intellectuals have played a central role, it provides a long view of contemporary understandings of the Global South, which both grounds the concept and gives it renewed critical heft. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in and working on the Global South today." -- Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra * Chasqui *“From the Tricontinental to the Global South is both interesting and challenging. . . . This would be a good book to use in graduate seminars on global history, the history of radicalism, and theory and history. Specialists will appreciate Mahler’s attention to detail and how she employs different types of evidence to analyze a largely forgotten radical movement.” -- Evan C. Rothera * African Studies Quarterly *"This book enriches the oeuvre of contemporary Cold War studies and critiques of neoliberalism. It builds on transnational scholarship that moves the Global South and Third Worldism away from national or regional paradigms to explain oppression and its resistance. … Mahler should be commended for the voluminous material she dissects and for jumping into the thorniness of these overlapping issues." -- John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco * American Historical Review *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South offers an indispensable historical perspective for understanding our tumultuous present; until Mahler releases an updated edition with a Tricontinentalist reading of the immediate post-George Floyd era, readers can only wait in anticipation." -- Daniel Cooper * American Literary History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is an outstanding and at times astounding book…. This book is likely to actually reshape the way fields, such as Latinx and postcolonial studies, define their relation to a centrally important but chronologically neglected history. I can imagine many graduate students not only adding this book to their Ph.D. reading lists but rethinking the entire trajectory of their future work because of it." -- Alfred J. López * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental 19 2. In the Belly of the Beast: African American Civil Rights through a Tricontinental Lens 68 3. The "Colored and Oppressed" in Amerikkka: Trans-Affective Solidarity in Writings by Young Lords and Nuyoricans 106 4. "Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café": Racial Politics in the "Latin, African" Nation 160 5. The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism: A Return to the Tricontinental 200 Conclusion. Against Ferguson? Internationalism from the Tricontinental to the Global South 241 Notes 247 Bibliography 299 Index 329
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University of Pittsburgh Press To Risk It All
Book SynopsisWhile most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what his success meant to the subsequent history of the mid-Atlantic colonies, native inhabitants of the Ohio Country, and the empire he represented.
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Fordham University Press The Alchemy of Empire Abject Materials and the
Book SynopsisThe Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted.Trade Review"An intriguing book that brings together an array of literary and non-literary texts dealing with eighteenth-century British response to South Asian techne. Sudan is a significant voice in global eighteenth-century studies as well as a leading critic of Anglo-Indian Relations." -- -Robert Markley University of IllinoisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire 1. The Alchemy of Empire 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras 3. Ice and the Production of British Climate 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism 5. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters Conclusion Notes Works Cited
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University of Manitoba Press Pathways of Reconciliation Indigenous and
Book SynopsisRecognising that reconciliation is not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue, and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers find their way forward.Table of Contents Introduction Ch. 1 Paved with Comfortable Intentions: Moving Beyond Liberal Multiculturalism and Civil Rights Frames on the Road to Transformative Reconciliation Ch. 2 Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation: Lessons from Gacaca in Post-Genocide Rwanda Ch. 3 Monitoring That Reconciles: Reflecting on the TRC's Call for a National Council for Reconciliation Ch. 4 A Move to Distract: Mobilizing Truth and Reconciliation in Settler Colonial States Ch. 5 Teaching Truth Before Reconciliation Ch. 6 “The Honour of Righting a Wrong:” Circles for Reconciliation Ch. 7 What Does Reconciliation Mean to Newcomers Post-TRC? Ch. 8 Healing from Residential School Experiences: Support Workers and Elders on Healing and the Role of Mental Health Professionals Ch. 9 Learning and reconciliation for the collaborative governance of forestland in northwestern Ontario, Canada Ch. 10 Bending to the Prevailing Wind: How Apology Repetition Helps Speakers and Hearers Walk Together Ch. 11 How do I reconcile Child and Family Services’ practice of cultural genocide with my own practice as a CFS social worker? Ch. 12 Repatriation, Reconciliation, and Refiguring Relationships. A Case study of the return of children's artwork from the Alberni Indian Residential School to Survivors and their families Conclusion
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Resistance Books Introduction to Marxist Theory
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Cambridge University Press The Antipodean Laboratory
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Cambridge University Press The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj
Book SynopsisHigh in the eastern Himalayan foothills, people had a unique vantage point on the British Empire. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from historical Indigenous perspectives of encounters with empire from the 1890s to the 1920s. Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author through the British Library''s Endangered Archives Programme, Kyle Jackson sheds new light on the complex and violent processes of how and why diverse populations of highland clans in the Indo-Burmese borderlands came to redefine themselves as Christian Mizos. By using historical Indigenous concepts and logics to approach early twentieth-century imperial encounters, Jackson guides readers into a decolonial history of Northeast India, demonstrating the value of thinking not just about the histories of colonized peoples and concepts but also with them.Table of ContentsIllustrations; Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Coming into View: Trade, Violence, Coercion (1870–1899); 2: Reading the Forest: Roads, Animals, Converts (1891–1912); 3 Adopting the Missionary: Messages, Commodities, Technologies (1894–1908); 4. Sensing the Mission: Hearing, Tasting, Harhna (1910s); 5. Crisis and Conversion: Bamboo, Debt, Disease (1906–1924); Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Empire of Influence
Book SynopsisAn important new account of how the East India Company established a transregional system of indirect rule in India in the early nineteenth century. Callie Wilkinson argues that the formation of the Company's empire of influence is a story of debate, resistance and uncertainty.
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Cambridge University Press WorkingClass Raj
Book SynopsisWorking-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family histories and remaking class in British India; 2. Writing family together across Imperial distances; 3. Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India; 4. Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service; 5. Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire; 6. Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India.
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Taylor & Francis Indian Literatures in Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland and contextualize the understanding of migration and migrant identities.Examining diasporic literature produced in Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Indian Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Marathi, and Tamil, the book argues that writers in the diaspora who choose to write in their vernacular languages attempt to retain their native language, for they believe that the loss of the language would lead to the loss of their culture. The author answers seminal questions including: How are these writers different from mainstream Indian writers who write in English? Themes and issues that could be compared to or contrasted with the diasporic literatures written in English are also explored.The book offers a significant examination of the nature and dynamics of the multilingual Indian society and culture, and its global readership. It is the first book on Indian diasporic liter
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Institutional Racism
Book SynopsisInstitutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism. It documents how the manipulation of truth and knowledge facilitated colonialism and epistemicide to create a perpetrator perspective of institutional racism that maintains the illusionary status of equality and justice and continues to conceal the breadth and depth of victimisation.The chapters present an understanding of how epistemicide, critical race theory, post-colonialism, white racial frames, white privilege, and insidious trauma can be used to critique the discourses and mechanisms that sustain a perpetrator perspective of institutional racism and how these concepts facilitate a victim perspective of institutional racism that documents the cumulative psychological and physical harms of institutional racism. The second half of the book provides grounded case studies of institutional racism in the areas of education, policing, the war o
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Taylor & Francis Ltd British Origins and American Practice of
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. Impeachment originated in England during the Good Parliament of 1376. It was used, subject to several periods of disuse, until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The British form of impeachment in turn inspired the drafters of the US Constitution and the inclusion of a mechanism permitting the removal of members of the federal executive and federal judiciary. These Anglo-American origins of impeachment have inspired many constitutions around the globe to include impeachment mechanisms which permit, in most cases, the legislature to remove the President, a Prime Minister, ministers and judges. This volume explores the origins, influence and practice of impeachment. Divided into three parts, the history of impeachment and how it developed in British history is the focus of part one. The inclusion of Ireland reflects the Trade Review‘This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of impeachment is essential readingfor scholars, citizens, and public officials alike. Now more than ever, it is vital to appreciate the promise and perils of the impeachment power, and to reckon with its proper role in constitutional democracy.’Joshua Matz, Partner, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP; Impeachment Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the first (2019–20) and second (2021) Senate trial of President TrumpTable of ContentsList of Contributors xiPreface xiiForeword xiv1 Impeachment Matters 1MATTHEW FLINDERS AND CHRIS MONAGHANPART 1British Origins 152 Impeachment during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Its Abeyance in the Sixteenth Century 17CHRIS MONAGHAN3 Impeachment in Seventeenth-Century England 42MARK GOLDIE4 British Politics and Impeachment in the Eighteenth Century 64ROBIN EAGLES5 Edmund Burke, India and the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings 84MITHI MUKHERJEE6 The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: The Existence of the Threat of Impeachment 114CHRIS MONAGHAN7 ‘Impeachment’ in Irish Constitutional Law 132LAURA CAHILLANE AND TOM HICKEYPART 2American Practice 1558 Impeachment in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in the Early United States 157JOHN R VILE9 Parallel Evolution: American Impeachment and the Two-Party System 180BRIAN C KALT10 Impeachment, Responsibility and Constitutional Failure: From Watergate to January 6 206JACK N RAKOVE11 The US Impeachment Process: Fit for Purpose in a Hyper-Partisan Era? 238CLODAGH HARRINGTON AND ALEX WADDANPART 3Evolutionary Dynamics 25912 The Renaissance of Impeachment: Political and Legal Accountability in the 21st Century 261DAN PLESCHIndex 271
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Taylor & Francis Slavery and Colonialism in the History of
Book SynopsisAtlantic slavery represents one of the blackest pages of human history. European powers not only colonised American lands but also brought African men and women to work as slaves on plantations. Intellectuals did not remain indifferent to this practice and from the second half of the 18th century criticised the institution of slavery from an ethical, legal, and economic point of view.This book aims to briefly illustrate the colonisation process implemented by France and Great Britain in the Caribbean and to reconstruct the debate on colonialism and slavery that developed in these two countries, approaching the issue from the standpoint of the History of Economic Thought. The decisive phase in this debate took place in the second half of the 18th century, when some classical economists belonging to the cultural movement of the Enlightenment laid the foundations for the critique of a production system based on slavery. On the same basis, some economists of the first half
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Taylor & Francis Exclusionary Rationalities in Brazilian Schooling
Book SynopsisThrough in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Eurocentric colonized thought that results in the persistence of exclusion bottlenecks; different trajectories according to gender, race, and class; and significant regional variations in the rates of failure and dropout, among other problems.Focusing on processes performed between 1918 and 2012, this book offers rich analysis of historiographic sources including journals, newspapers, and administrative documentation to trace the development of initiatives intended to promote the democratization of Brazilian schooling. An examination of reforms including school classification, the graduated school model, admissions examinations, and automatic promotion reveal a school system that mirrors wider societal injustices and guarantees academic success for only a minority of students.Bringing a nuanced and elaborated historical perspective of the pragmatics of the selective classificatory logic in different institutional and epistemic qualities of the school organization of children and the reasoning about abilities and achievement, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in curriculum and assessment, the sociology of education, and the history of education.
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Taylor & Francis Decolonising Political Concepts
Book SynopsisThis book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions as well as their substantive translations into practices.Despite the acclaimed twentieth-century decolonisation waves, coloniality still remains in subtle and obvious practices, in visible and invisible mechanisms of power, and in the privileging of certain knowledges and the dismissing of others. Decolonising Political Concepts critically addresses the role political concepts play in the continuing legacies of colonialism and ongoing coloniality. This book, building on postcolonial and decolonial thinkers and ideas, demonstrates how concepts may be used as oppressing political and epistemological tools. By presenting efforts to decolonise political concepts, the book signals the potential for genuinely postcolonial academic and political contexts. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and engaging with a wide array of geographical contexts, the chapters examine concepts such as agency, violence, freedom, or sovereignty. This book enables readers to critically engage with concepts used in political discourse and allows them to reflect on their impact and alternatives.It will appeal to graduate students and scholars from international relations, social sciences, or philosophy, as well as to socio-political actors engaged in decolonisation agendas.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Taylor & Francis MorethanOne Health
Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human, animal, and environmental health. It assembles leading scholars from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine to explore existing One Health approaches and to envision a mode of health that is both more-than-human and also more sensitive to, and explicit about, colonial and neocolonial legaciesurging the decolonization of One Health.While acknowledging the importance of One Health, the volume at the same time critically examines its roots, highlighting the structural biases and power dynamics still at play in this global health regime. The volume is distinctive in its geographic breadth. It travels from Inuit sled dogs in the Arctic to rock hyraxes in Jerusalem, from black-faced spoonbills in Taiwan to street dogs in India, from spittle-bugs on Mallorca's almond trees to jellyfish management at sea, and from rabies in sub-Saharan Africa to massive culling practices in South Korea. To
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Built Environment through the Prism of the
Book SynopsisThe Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conceptual discussions. Through a focus on the understudied role of colonial periodicals in the creation and public discussion of colonial built environments, the present book contributes to a cultural history of the idea of built environment. The studies underscore the role of press in articulating environment imaging and transformations with colonial ideologies, projects and policies, and the fixing, othering and disputing of identities, while still retaining the epochal circulation of ideas. This role is evidenced through discussions of forests, clubs, hotels, barracks, hospitals, houses, verandas and gardens, railways, Catholic churches and Hindu templescapes, restorations and exhibitions. The book also examines a non-canonical varietTable of Contents1. The Forest or the Tree? Colonial Forestry and Environmental Debates in the Goan Periodical Press.José Ferreira2. Iron Message: Railways in the German Colonial Press.Corinna Schäfer3. Infrastructure in the Making: The Ottoman Railway Company as Portrayed by the Smyrna Mail.Elvan Cobb4. Tropical Building: A Typology Defined in British Military Engineering Journals.Pedro Guedes5. Illustration as propaganda in the nineteenth-century periodical press: British Empire building on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo.Anne Shelley6. Educating the colonial spouse or pushing the agenda of Tropical Modernism in the Belgian Congo? Architecture and the coloniser's house in the pages of the Bulletin de l'Union des Femmes Coloniales.Johan Lagae7. Reconstructing Templescapes in Goa: Santeri-Śāntādurgā and Other Female Deities through the Compromissos of the Boletim OfficialCibele Aldrovandi8. Conflicted Identities: Bombay's Catholic communities, its buildings and the Press.Alice Santiago Faria and Sidh Losa Mendiratta9. Constructing the Empire: Italian Colonial Architecture and the practice of ambientazione.Monica Palmeri10. 'Old Goa must be brought back to life': The restoration of Old Goa's monuments in the Goan periodical press during the Portuguese colonial period.Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos11. Cabo Verde Boletim de Propaganda e Informação (1949-64): from propaganda to the demands for change at the periphery of the Portuguese empire.Ana Vaz Milheiro
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Taylor & Francis Writing Manchuria The Lives and Literature of Zhu
Book SynopsisWriting Manchuria details the lives and translates a selection of fiction from one of the mid-twentieth centuryâs four famous husband-wife writers of Chinaâs Northeast, who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo: Li Zhengzhong (1921â2020) and Zhu Ti (1923â2012).The writings herein were published from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, in Manchukuo, north China, and Japan; their writings appeared in the most prominent Japanese-owned, Chinese-language journals and newspapers. This volume includes materials that were censored or banned by the Manchukuo authorities: Li Zhengzhongâs Temptation and Frost Flowers, and Zhu Tiâs Cross the Bo Sea and Little Linzi and her Family. Li Zhengzhong has been characterized as an angry youth while Zhu Tiâs work questioned contemporary gender ideals and the subjugation of women. Their writings â those that were censored or banned and those published â shed important light on Japanese imperialism and the Chinese literature that was produced in different regions, reflecting both official support and suppression.Writing Manchuria is the first English-language translation of their writings, and it will appeal to those interested in Chinese wartime literature, as well as contribute to understandings of imperialism and the varied forms it took across Japanâs vast war-time empire.
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Taylor & Francis A Philosophy of Climate Apocalypticism
Book SynopsisThis book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political theology and continental philosophy to ancient and medieval apocalypses, the book sheds a comprehensive light on the concepts, processes, and experiences which circulate around the figure of the environmental end of the world. Importantly, this book argues that apocalypticism can provide a productive philosophical framework for addressing the climate catastrophe, enabling us to propose a distinctive answer to the fundamental question which haunts progressive ecological projects: how can we defend the world we find indefensible?Appealing to students, academics and researchers in philosophy, political theology, and environmental humanities, this book is a timely intervention which hopes to demonstrate that, when all else fails,
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Taylor & Francis Migratory Men
Book SynopsisForegrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we conceptualise and theorise mobile men in a global context.Bringing together studies from around the world (e.g. Australia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and Italy), this collection foregrounds how the transnational migratory experience profoundly reshapes menâs complex identity practices. Specifically, the collection highlights how transnational migratory aspirations and experiences often lead men to reimagine local patterns of masculinity and/or reaffirm prescriptive gender roles as they encounter new spaces/places. In presenting interdisciplinary research, the international scholars consider the powerful roles of economics, politics and social class in shaping masculinities. Furthermore, the contributors emphasise how men affectively and agentically experience migration and how interaction with new spaces/places can often lead to negotiations between disempowerment and empowerment.As such, this collection will appeal to both non-academic readers who share transnational migratory aspirations and experiences and academic readers across the social sciences with interests in gender and sexuality, migration and diaspora, transnationalism and contemporary masculinities.Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd West Africa
Book SynopsisWest Africa (1977) surveys the first century of European enterprise rivalry, and exploitation in West Africa. It examines the achievements of the Portuguese during the century following their exploration of its shores, and the successive attempts of its rivals Castilians, the French and English to disrupt the commercial monopoly claimed by Portugal in West African waters.Table of Contents1. Castilo-Portuguese Rivalry in Senegambia, 1454–56 2. Portuguese Progress, Especially after the Grant to Fernao Gomes, 1456–75 3. The Challenge of Castile, 1475–80 4. The Consolidation of the Portuguese Monopoly, 1480–1530 5. Trade and Fortification in West Africa, 1480–1578 6. French Intervention in West Africa, 1530–53 7. Triple Rivalry in West Africa, 1553–59 8. Monopoly on the Wane, 1559–78
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Taylor & Francis African Epistemologies in Higher Education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Colonial Violence and Monuments in Global History
Book SynopsisThis book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia.In this volume, the authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes. The chapters track the contested histories of monuments, scrutinizing their narrative power and examining the violent events behind them. It is both about the history of monuments and the histories the monuments are meant to commemorate. It is interested in this nuanced relationship between violence, monuments, memory, and colonial legacies; the ways different facets of colonial violenceconquest, resistance, massacres, genocides, internments, and injusticeshave been commemorated (or haven't been), how they live in the present, and how pertinent they are in the present to different peoples. Legacies of colonial violence, and continued reiTrade Review"In recent years, debates over historical statues and monuments have been central to the struggle of former colonial powers, and former colonies, to come to term with their past – or to disavow it. With a genuinely global scope, this timely and exciting collection of case-studies examine how memorials both conceal and reveal contested histories of colonial violence, which refuse to be peacefully consigned to the past."Kim A. Wagner, University of London, UK"The global approach utilized by Cynthia Prescott and Janne Lahti reinforces the relationality of violence, monuments, memory, and legacy across time and place. This volume makes visible those histories and peoples erased by colonial violence and later settler colonial monuments. Prescott and Lahti’s volume provides necessary context for current contestations over public space and memory. Monuments matter. This volume is a must-read."Elise Boxer, University of South Dakota, USA"This compelling collection offers a truly global perspective on the relationship between colonial violence and monumentality. Contributions by scholars and community advocates map the ways colonial and postcolonial monuments have celebrated, concealed, and embodied the violence of empire in North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia over the last two centuries. Always insistent on the specific histories of both monuments and the acts they commemorate, these essays go beyond simple binaries to trace the multiple, shifting actions and experiences of colonizers, settlers, postcolonial states, and Indigenous peoples through time."Jennifer Sessions, University of Virginia, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Looking Globally at Monuments, Violence, and Colonial Legacies 1. Visualizing Juan de Oñate’s Colonial Legacies in New Mexico 2. De-Colonizing Australia’s Commemorative Landscape: “Truth-Telling,” Contestation and the Dialogical Turn 3. The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars 4. Südwester Reiter: Fear, Belonging, and Settler Colonial Violence in Namibia 5. South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and 1820 Settlers National Monument: Monuments to Cultural Violence 6. The Ajnala Massacre of 1857 and the Politics of Colonial Violence and Commemoration in Contemporary India 7. Belgian Monuments of Colonial Violence: the Commemoration of Martyred Missionaries
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Sacred Waters of Varanasi
Book SynopsisThis book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely deluged metropolitan cities and other parts of India in recent years.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Race in the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisRace in the Anthropocene provides a radical new perspective on the importance of race and coloniality in the Anthropocene. It forwards the Black Horizon as a critical lens which places at its heart the importance of ontological concerns fundamental to problematising the violences and exclusions of the antiblack world.At present, multiple new approaches are emerging through the shared problem field of Anthropocene thought and policy, offering to save not just the world, but the practice of governance, the business of Big Data, the progress of development, and the dream of peace. It is against this backdrop that Race in the Anthropocene unsettles not just the already shaky foundations of modernity but also the affirmative visions of its critics, by directing our gaze to how race and coloniality are baked into the grounding concepts of international thought.This book is essential reading for students of International Relations, particularly those interested
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe
Book SynopsisAfter assuming power in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) has sought to control the narrative of the struggle for liberation from colonialism, to the exclusion of other players such as the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). This book investigates the ways in which photographs are being used within Zimbabwe, especially on social media, to challenge the prevailing narrative and reclaim the memories of the subjugated.The book analyses the photographs produced by Zenzo Nkobi during the struggle against colonialism. Drawing on the memories of veterans from ZAPU and its military wing the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), the book shows that photographs can both act as a conduit for existing narratives, and as a tool for shaping memory narratives, and evidencing ZPRA military prowess ahead of other movements.At a time when Zimbabwe is reassessing the legacy of liberation, this book offers a powerful multidisciplinary assessment for
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Taylor & Francis Combating Oppression with New Commemorations
Book SynopsisCombating Oppression with New Commemorations examines the ways in which marginalized groups can confront oppressive regimes through commemorations and advocacy of their own heritage.Presenting case studies from across the globe, the volume provides invaluable insights into the diverse strategies and various disciplinary approaches being used to counter oppression through commemorations of the heritage of marginalized groups. Reminding the reader that such commemorations are often created by individuals who have directly confronted traumas of oppression, contributors emphasize that their survivance, successes, and vitality are tributes to human resilience and creativity. Chapters also demonstrate how such commemorations can advance recognition of the groupâs diverse legacies and cultural identity and help enhance social and economic equities for that population across local, regional, and national scales. It is also made clear that they can provide resources for reconciliation negotiations with other social collectives who seek to oppress the marginalized group. These dynamics can facilitate truth-telling, accountability, recovery of unrecorded histories, revitalization, increments of healing, and efforts to avoid future repetitions of past and present social traumas.Combating Oppression with New Commemorations will be essential reading for academics, and students working in heritage studies, archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies, landscape analysis, and museum studies. It will also be of great interest to practitioners and activists around the world.
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Taylor & Francis Legal Education Through an Indigenous Lens
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive resource for accommodating and pursuing Indigenous perspectives in legal education.The book is divided into three sections. The first section highlights the continuing issues that Indigenous people face in law schools and universities, including the ongoing impacts of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, institutional racism and exclusion. This section also includes chapters that explore arguments for the recognition of Indigenous legal knowledge and of the impact of settler law, and the incorporation of Indigenous concepts, laws and ways of thinking about settler law across the curriculum. The second section explores how Indigenous ways of reading and thinking about settler law make a difference to how settler law is understood and interpreted. Contributors consider the power of storytelling and address the prospect of lawâs decolonisation. The third section of the book grapples with how traditional law school subjects can be taught through an Indigenous lens, including torts, public law, criminal law and sentencing, clinical legal education, and native title. Throughout, the book demonstrates the importance of, and offers practical advice for, teaching law in a way that includes critical Indigenous perspectives.This book will be of enormous value to teachers, researchers, students in law, legal studies and Indigenous studies, and others with an interest in decolonising legal education.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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